religious texts have divided to texts of quran's verses and traditions of imams. some of the fundamentalists have diversity of opinions in mentioned comprehensible texts and they have proposed different theories in it. although dispute of this group of fundamentalists in religious texts is also minor premise and major but recent research is related to dispute of major. the intention of dis...

In this paper we present the Per-Fide project, aimed at the construction of parallel corpora mapping the Portuguese language to six other languages English, Russian, French, Italian, German and Spanish in various domains including literary, journalistic and religious texts. First we will focus on the corpus design criteria and its main features, particularly those that distinguish this corpus f...

The main theme of the thesis is to interpret Naxi (Na-khi) religious texts from a historical and a comparative perspective in the social and cultural context in the region of south-west China. There are two parts: Part I. Social Anthropology and the study of the Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples; Part II. Naxi writing and the interpretation of Naxi religious texts. Part I (Chapters 1 to 5) focuses...

This chapter seeks to explain our preliminary reflections on how different religious communities might use their texts and traditions to respond to and assess the ethics of oncofertility research and technologies. Specifically, this chapter will briefly explore the Catholic, Evangelical Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions and their anticipated or potential contributions to...

In this study, we present the results of the investigation of diachronic stylistic changes in 20th century religious texts in two major English language varieties – British and American. We examined a total of 146 stylistic features, divided into three main feature sets: (average sentence length, Automated readability index, lexical density and lexical richness), part-of-speech frequencies and ...

This paper aims at describing the building of the online corpora on Philippine languages as part of the online repository system called Palito. There are five components of the corpora: the top four major Philippine languages which are Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano and Hiligaynon and the Filipino Sign Language (FSL). The four languages are composed of 250,000-word written texts each, whereas the FS...

one of the important questions considered in every theory of interpretation regards unity versus plurality of the true meaning of the text. this paper, as a descriptive-critical research built on data collection and library documents, has tried to get help from the principles derived from sciences such as linguistics, hermeneutics and principles of jurisprudence, in order to demonstrate that th...